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| 14 | 159 | There was a rim of red View more quotes about light">light over the mountains, and I knew it was nearly dawn. |
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| 14 | 156 | Daring everything, I leaped in the darkness for the reins of the bird and with one scrambling hand managed to seize the guiding collar. |
| 14 | 157 | The sudden tug downward caused the bird to respond as I had hoped it would, as if pressure had been exerted on the four-strap. |
| 14 | 158 | It immediately descended, and a minute later I was on the ground, on a sort of rough plateau. |
| 14 | 159 | There was a rim of red light over the mountains, and I knew it was nearly dawn. |
| 14 | 160 | My ankles were still fastened to the bird, and I quickly untied the ropes. |
| 14 | 161 | In the first streak of the early light I saw a few hundred yards away what I had hoped to find—the saddle and twisted body of the tarnsman. |
| 14 | 162 | I released the bird, ran to the saddle, and removed the crossbow which, to my joy, was intact. |